Nothing helps give you that holly jolly feeling like a gold old fashioned Christmas song. And nobody packs as much magic into ...

This year, Jordin Sparks is taking a unique approach in hopes of breaking through the seasonal logjam. By Glenn Peoples The holiday season is a lousy time for new Christmas music. From one year to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons (L) and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, of Run-DMC, speak during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ...

The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell, which became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The years keep passing us by and more and more Christmas songs keep getting made. Singing about the yuletide season is a rite of ...

Holiday music brings in more money every year. But most of it goes to the classics. By Robert Levine This may have been the biggest year ever for Christmas music, at least going by the charts. Holiday ...

Holiday songs have already begun their dominance of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this year, but their annual monopoly over the chart’s top spots is a recent phenomenon thanks to the rise of ...

When it comes to Christmas music, you only need one hit to be wonderful. But you can also end up a one-hit wonder. Slingo put together a list of the best Christmas one-hit wonders. And the list has ...

Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is the No. 1 song in the world, snowballing three places to the top of the Billboard Global 200, as the 1984 classic by the British duo of George Michael, who died in 2016, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas Is You” breaks into the ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit ...